Livestock housing: Modern management to ensure optimal health and welfare of farm animals

497 Pages·2013·37.31 MB·English

by  Andres Aland

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edited by:
Andres Aland and Thomas Banhazi
Livestock housing

Livestock
housing
Modern management to ensure
optimal health and welfare
of farm animals
edited by:
Andres Aland
Thomas Banhazi
Wageningen Academic 
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Acknowledgements
The guest editors would like to thank all the people for giving us their valuable help in the
preparation process of this book. We especially would like to acknowledge the valuable
contributions of numerous reviewers, who ensured that all chapter contributions are of the
highest scientific quality while remaining practically relevant. To ensure the impartiality of the
rigorous review process their names are kept confidential.
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements 7
Preface 17
Andres Aland and Thomas Banhazi
Part 1 – Historical introduction
1. A short history of livestock production 21
J. Hartung
1.1 Introduction 21
1.2 Livestock production in the ancient times 21
1.3 Livestock production in the Middle Ages 24
1.4 The new age of livestock production 26
1.5 The development of livestock production since the 19 century 28
1.6 Livestock farming today and in future 30
1.7 Conclusions 32
Acknowledgement 32
References 33
Part 2 – General aspects of livestock buildings
2. A review of the impact of housing on dairy cow behaviour, health and welfare 37
C.J.C. Phillips, B. Beerda, U. Knierim, S. Waiblinger, L. Lidfors, C.C. Krohn, E. Canali, H.
Valk, I. Veissier and H. Hopster
Abstract 37
2.1 Introduction 38
2.2. The effects of housing dairy cows on their opportunities to perform natural
behaviour 39
2.3. Health and reproduction in relation to housing 44
2.4. Conclusions 48
Acknowledgements 48
References 48
3. A cow comfort monitoring scheme to increase the milk yield of a dairy farm 55
F.J.C.M. van Eerdenburg, S. Vázquez-Flores, J. Saltijeral-Oaxaca and E.N. Sossidou
Abstract 55
3.1. Introduction 55
3.2. Materials and methods 56
3.3. Results 56
3.4. Discussion 58
Acknowledgements 60
References 60
Appendix. Score for cow comfort on the dairy farm 63
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